The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-30

ed by fire last Saturday. Loss, 81, 900; not
insured
At Dillon last week Cyrus Moon, while
engaged in moving frame building, was
fatally injured by the structure falling
upon him. He was recent arrival in the
territory.
The Daily Billings Gazette will suspend
publication on and after this date, there
not being sufficient patronage to maintain
it. The Weekly Gazette, however, will
be continued.
Theodore Roosevelt has shipped two
large Irish wolf dogs to his Montana ranch
where they will be used in exterminating
wolves, cayotes, etc. They are valued at
$500 per PAIR.
DR.. Holloway, the territorial veterina-
rian, discovered two cases Of glandered
horses in Miles City last week and caused
the death of both. The owner was re-
munerated by private subscription.
Jesse Clayton, cyprian of Miles City,
committed suicide last Sunday evening,
via the morphine route. She had been
drinking heavily, and made despondent
by her low condition was induced to take
her own life.
The commissioners of Silver Bow coun-
ty have ordered the sheriff to put the Jail
prisoners at work on the streets under
guard. Those about whom there is any
apprehension of trying to escape will be
supplied with hall and chain.
BY order of the executive committee
the fifth annual meeting of the Eastern
Montana Wool Growers association will
be held in the parlors of the Macqueen
house at Miles City, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, on Wednesday, May 18, 1887.
VIM. Francisco. engaged in cutting
fencing in the mountains near Pipestone
pass, Jefferson county, left his wood camp
on the End inst. for the half way house
six miles distant, and has not since been
heard from. He has brother living at
Central Park, this county.
Dune Mcdonald, Montana's pugilist,
now languishes in the penitentiary of Utah,
for engaging in prize fight at Salt Lake
last October. He was sentenced for only
thirty days, but large number of his
Butte friends have petitioned the Utah
governor praying for clemency.
A freight train of twenty cars broke
in two in Beaver canyon on the Utah &
Northern road and the eighteen rear cars
went back down the grade at high rate
of speed. They finally jumped the track
and piled up in promiscuous heap.
Conductor Lowry was fatally injured.
A fire occurred in the blacksmith shop
of Mcdonald s Aware, at Glendale, on the
21st inst. The flames leapcd across the
street from the blacksmith shop and set
fire to the two-story cabinet shop owned
and occupied by Hiram Stuart. Both
buildings were burned, causing loss Of
1000; no insurance.
J. T. Rockford, printer employed in
the Miner Office at Butte, attempted to
kill himself by shooting. The bullet
however, inflicted only flesh wound in
the right breast just under the arm and
while painful, is not likely to result fa-
tally. The cause given by Rockford for
the act is domestic trouble.
River Press: A shooting scrape occur
red at Choteau few days ago in which a
man named Chas. Skeels shot his mistress
through the hand. He was arrested on
the charge of assault with intent to kill
and was bound over by Judge Crutcher in
the sum of $500 to await the action of the
grand jury. He gave the required bail.
Three trappers coming down the Mis-
souri, in skiff stopped at Wolf Point
for provisions. While there an Indain
named Buffalo Runner was examining the
rifles, when one went off accidentally,
shooting him through the head and killing
him instantly. The trappers were ar
rested, held in custody few days and re-
leased.
At Butte on Tuesday evening, Jack
Rowand, quarter breed Indian, attempt
ed to shoot a barkeeper who had refused
to sell him drink. The ball missed the
intended victim and struck Joseph Bussier,
delivery clerk of NJ. L. Frank, intiicting
a wound from the effect of which the un-
fortunate man died the next morning.
Rowand was arrested and waived examin-
alton.
Governor Leslie has issued a proclama-
tion offering reward of l,100 for the
apprehension of Joseph Scott, Geo. Bell,
Royal Towsley and Thos. Murphy, who
escaped from confinement in the peniten
tiary September 3, 1883. Scott was serv
ing life sentence for murder, and Bell,
for robbery, was imprisoned for fifteen
years. The other two were imprisoned
for grand larceny and cattle stealing. Geo.